SAMER (Student Association for Mathematical Experiences in Research)

Advisor: Dr. In-Jae Kim

We meet weekly throughout each semester.

Interested in joining us?

Please, contact Dr. In-Jae Kim

Associate Advisor: Eryn Stehr

Student Presentations

• Craig Erickson, On Nilpotence Indices of Sign Patterns, MAA-NC Meeting, April 2009

• Eric Hanson, On Sign-Solvable Linear Systems and  their Applications in Economics, Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2009

• Craig Erickson, On Potentially Nilpotent Sign Patterns, Graduate Research Conference, April 2009

• Lucas Kramer, On Nonnegative Matrices and the Perron-Frobenius Theory, Graduate Research Conference, April 2009

• Brendon Watts, Spectral Properties of a Class of Bipartite Graphs, Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2008

 

Research Papers by Members

• Y.-F. Chen, H.-L. Fu, I.-J. Kim, E. Stehr and B. Watts, On the largest eigenvalues of bipartite graphs which are nearly complete, To appear in Linear Algebra and its Applications.

• I.-J. Kim and C. Erickson, On Nilpotence Indices of Sign Patterns, To appear in  Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society.

 

SAMER Speakers

• Dr. Jason Grout, Tutorial on Sage, Fall 2008

• Dr. Charles Waters, On Orthogonal Sign Patterns, Fall 2008

• Dr. In-Jae Kim, Max-Plus Algebra, Fall 2008

• Dr. Hyuna Park, Continuous-Time Finance and Quantitative Analysts on Wall Street, Fall 2008

• Dr. Hongxia Yin, Optimization Theory: Introduction, Regression analysis and method of least squares, Logistic regression, Convex optimization (constrained and unconstrained; Lagrange dual problem and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition), Spring 2008

• Steven Reller, Singular Value Decomposition, Spring 2008

• Dr. Pavel Kitsul, Stochastic Differential Equations: Time Reversal and its Applications to Minimal Representation of Stochastic Processes, Spring 2008

• Dr. Brian Martensen, Dynamical Systems: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Oscillations (Synchronization of Firefly Flashes),  Chaos (Edward Lorenz and Lorenz Butterfly), Spring 2008

• Dr. In-Jae Kim, Combinatorial Matrix Theory and Graph Theory, Fall 2007

 

Undergraduate Research Conference (URC): If you are interested in actively researching mathematics outside the classroom, then the URC is a great opportunity.  There are funds available: up to $2,000 for Minnesota State Foundation Student Research Awards, up tp $1,100 for URC Large Grants, and up to $500 for URC Small Grants.  For more information, feel free to explore the URC.